Football

[mrph]

England 1, Argentina 0

So, of course, Brumgoth is full of posts about football (CovHeretics, thankfully, isn't), the city centre pubs are full of drunks with England flags and/or facepaint, and the drunk who marched past my bus queue was yelling "C'maaan! Whazup! Aren't yer fuckin' proud of yer fuckin' country?".

Good question. I'm proud of a lot of the things it's done (which isn't quite the same thing) - but Beckham kicking a ball into a net isn't one of them.

It's not that I don't like football (I watched the Senegal/France match when I was in Montreal, and really enjoyed it), it's just that I don't take it quite that seriously - and I certainly don't think it's any real measure of patriotism (which is itself an entirely different can of worms, and one which I won't open here).

Am I missing something? (testosterone, perhaps?)

Comments

[mouseboks.livejournal.com]

I think it is merely that you have the maturity to consolidate your sense of cultural identity through means other than using sporting events as an excuse for jingoism. There are depressing few who can :(
(Was a good game though ;)